Fun_People Archive
28 Oct
Russian Federation: Oil Spill [commented]

Date: Fri, 28 Oct 94 15:02:38 PDT
To: Fun_People
Subject: Russian Federation: Oil Spill [commented]

Forwarded-by: dss@rad.com (Daniel Steinberg)
Commented-by: Kate C.

Just thought I'd share these exerpts from the disaster information 
network's latest incident report...
(ok, ok, it's friday)

kate

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From: Disaster Information Administrator <incident@vita.org>

                 RUSSIAN FEDERATION - OIL SPILL
               DHA-GENEVA INFORMATION REPORT NO.2
                         27 OCTOBER 1994

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4. A TEMPORARY DYKE CONTAINING THE OIL SPILL COLLAPSED BECAUSE OF
HEAVY RAINS, AND THE SPILL REACHED THE KOLVA RIVER.

	A "temporary dyke"?  What's the deciding factor?
 	I hope they've dried her off and revived her by now.

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ONLY IN THE DELTA OF THE RIVER OUSA, WHICH FALLS INTO THE RIVER 
PECHORA, OIL POLLUTION IS UP TO 2-3 MPC.  THERE IS NO OIL FILM THERE.

	The river Ousa is a'Ousing a'plenty it seems.
	No oil film yet, but they *are* writing a screenplay.

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FURTHER INFORMATION ON THIS ACCIDENT WILL BE PROVIDED, ONCE
RECEIVED FROM COMPETENT NATIONAL AUTHORITIES.
	
	As opposed to the standard-issue national authority?
	How many incompetents do you think there are running
	*their* country?  Starts to sound like Congress...

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